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In this episode, we travel (metaphorically) to Curaçao, a country so small that many football fans had never even heard of it before the World Cup draw. Most people recognise the name because of the bright blue cocktail liqueur. Almost nobody expected it to become one of the smallest nations ever to play on football's biggest stage. But this isn't just a football story. It's a story about colonial...

Most artists spend their entire careers trying to become famous. Banksy became one of the most famous artists on the planet by making sure nobody knew who he was. And somehow, that strategy worked so well that his anonymity became just as valuable as the art itself.   In this episode, we dive into the strange, contradictory, and deeply fascinating world of Banksy. We look at some of his most iconi...

When people talk about World War II in India, the conversation usually jumps straight to Subhas Chandra Bose, the INA, and the fight against British colonial rule. What gets left out is the story of the only part of India that was actually occupied by another Axis power during the war: the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. And it is not a pleasant story.   In this episode, we dive into the short but brut...

Can a footballer make people less racist? It sounds like the setup to a terrible LinkedIn post, but it's also a real question that researchers from Stanford and other institutions decided to investigate. And somehow, the answer may be yes.   In this episode, we explore the bizarre and fascinating story of The Salah Effect, a term inspired by a 2019 study that examined whether Liverpool superstar M...

This week, we dive into a story that starts with wellness, empowerment, mindfulness, and healing and somehow ends with forced labour, coercive sex, cult-like control, and prison sentences. We're talking about OneTaste, the organisation that convinced thousands of people that repeatedly stroking someone's clitoris for exactly fifteen minutes was a revolutionary spiritual practice called Orgasmic Me...

At some point over the last year, fitness quietly stopped being about six-packs and started becoming a personality. Suddenly everyone's in a run club, waking up at unreasonable hours, posting Strava screenshots like stock market updates, and voluntarily paying money to suffer in public. Which brings us to this episode's main character: HYROX  . We break down what HYROX actually is, where it came f...

This week, we dive headfirst into one of the strangest objects in human history: the Shroud of Turin, a 14-foot piece of linen that is either the burial cloth of Jesus Christ… or the world's most successful medieval scam. For centuries, this faintly creepy cloth has sat at the exact intersection of faith, science, history, and people confidently yelling at each other online. Because printed onto i...

Hey there carers, Thank you for sticking with us thus far and we hope you continue to do so in the foreseeable future as well. We will be taking a very short break till the first week of May and will go back to our regular schedule of a new episode every Monday thereon. In the meantime, we hope you get a chance to listen to some of our older episodes. Just like in life, we have grown and improved...

This episode starts at a party, takes a hard left into pseudoscience, and ends with us aggressively side-eyeing half of modern psychology. We're talking about bullshit psychological theories, the ones that sound legit, get repeated everywhere, and somehow survive despite having little to no actual scientific backing.  From Stockholm Syndrome to the five stages of grief, we break down how these ide...

Summer is objectively the worst season. It's hot, sticky, mildly unbearable… and yet, somehow, we all tolerate it for one reason: mangoes. In this episode, we take a deep dive into India's favourite fruit, not just as food, but as a full-blown cultural phenomenon. From its origins in South Asia and its journey through Portuguese trade, to the fact that India produces nearly half the world's mangoe...

If you grew up anytime after the 1980s, you probably think you know exactly how dinosaurs went extinct: one massive asteroid, one very bad day, end of story. The problem is… we didn't actually know that for most of modern scientific history. In this episode, we go back to a time when the extinction of dinosaurs was basically a free-for-all of extremely confident guesses. We're talking climate chan...

Every year, the Oscars announce their winners… and millions of people immediately react with some variation of "wait, that movie won?" In this episode, we dig into how the Oscars actually pick winners, and why the result often feels confusing, underwhelming, or completely disconnected from what audiences loved that year. We break down the preferential ballot system used for Best Picture, where Aca...

Every year around International Women's Day, corporations suddenly remember that women exist. They post inspirational graphics, run aggressively mediocre ad campaigns, and pretend a century of labour struggles, suffrage movements, and fights for basic rights can be summarised in a pastel Instagram tile. This episode starts with that frustration and then moves somewhere much more interesting: the h...

This episode, we dive into the deeply unhinged saga of the Opium Wars; the time Britain decided that if China wouldn't buy enough British goods, it would simply get millions of Chinese people addicted to opium and then declare war when China tried to stop it. From the Treaty of Nanjing and the forced cession of Hong Kong, to extraterritorial rights and humiliating indemnities, this episode unpacks...

At some point in life, pink stopped being a colour and started being a personality test. It went from "just lightened red" to "this says something about you," and nobody remembers signing up for that meeting. In this episode, we unpack how pink became "feminine", and why that idea is way newer, way flimsier, and way more profit-driven than most people realise. We trace pink back to its original as...

In this episode, we ask a question that feels mildly illegal to say out loud in 2026: is Generative AI basically a Ponzi scheme? From OpenAI's eye-watering losses to Nvidia selling $40,000 GPUs like they're limited-edition sneakers, we unpack the very small circle of companies pumping billions into each other while insisting this is the future of humanity. Microsoft invests in OpenAI. Nvidia inves...

If you're listening to this around Valentine's Day, there's a good chance you've recently participated in one of the world's most aggressive annual rituals of romance, panic, and procurement. In this episode, we take a long, uncomfortable look at Valentine's Day, not as a celebration of love, but as a perfectly engineered, brutally efficient global logistics operation disguised as candlelight and...

Have you ever walked into a room and completely forgotten why you're there; not in a poetic, existential way, but in a deeply annoying, brain-just-crashed way? This episode starts there and then happily spirals into the many ways our minds glitch, misfire, and occasionally gaslight us for no apparent reason. We explore a bunch of everyday brain "glitches", not mental illnesses or rare disorders, j...

In this episode, we talk about the Indian constitution, which felt like a good time to talk about the Indian Constitution on account of today being 26th January, India's Republic Day. As always, we don't talk about the constitution in a chest-thumping, flag-waving way, but in the messy, uncomfortable, historically accurate way it actually deserves. Because for a document that gets invoked constant...

In this episode, we talk about something that sounds extremely boring but is secretly responsible for a lot of the world being the way it is: terrible mergers and acquisitions. Having briefly survived a career in finance, we try to explain why corporate mergers are almost never about innovation, efficiency, or "shareholder value", and are almost always about a handful of executives making obscene...

In this episode, we do something deeply unnecessary but impossible to resist: we ruin everyday English phrases for ourselves and, by extension, for you. What starts as a bad day at work filled with people biting bullets, letting cats out of bags, and buttering up bosses turns into a full-blown investigation into why the English language is basically a museum of human suffering disguised as casual...

This episode is about one of the most uncomfortable, complicated, and rarely discussed chapters of India's freedom struggle - the time Subhas Chandra Bose and the Free India Legion briefly aligned with Nazi Germany to fight British colonial rule. It's a story that doesn't fit neatly into hero worship or outright condemnation, which is exactly why we felt the need to talk about it. We trace how Bos...

In this episode, we fall headfirst into the gloriously stupid, occasionally brilliant, and deeply human world of art heists, sparked by the now-infamous 2025 Louvre heist. Yes, that Louvre. The one with the Mona Lisa, absurd security, and apparently a blind spot for people wearing high-vis jackets. What begins as an exploration of the genius of the heist quickly turns into a full-blown spiral thro...

In this episode, we wade into the swampy, sensational, deeply unserious world of The Sun, a British tabloid so notorious that calling it a "newspaper" feels like an insult to both news and paper. What started in the 1960s as an optimistic, politically neutral publication meant to reflect "the age we live in" quickly devolved into a right-wing chaos machine famous for Page 3 girls, fabricated scand...